Italian Style Pointed Tweezers Mashers

This invaluable tool just may become the workhorse on your lampworking bench. It has a good heavy duty, solid feel in your hand. The polished pointed tips can manipulate fine detail yet have enough mass behind them to take on a lot of heat to resist sticking to molten glass. Behind the points it widens to ½” (12.7 mm) for mashing small-scale work. A great time saver and incredibly handy when you have just tweezed a hot area of glass and want to mash it before it cools down (or vice versa). You won’t have to set down one tool to pick up another, while the whole time the glass is becoming too cool and needs reheating.
We made two different tip profiles and asked lampworkers which style they preferred. Half said the slender tip and half said the wide tip, because the curve leading to the points can also be used for mashing like a pinch at the side of the molten glass and will leave a nice curve transition between the mashed area and the area that was not mashed. 8” length.